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Magento CMS Block Guide: How to Create, Import & Export Static Blocks in Magento 2

June 24, 2025 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Our extensions

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Creating a standout storefront in Magento 2 often comes down to how well you manage your CMS blocks or static blocks that power everything from homepage banners to promotional widgets. These reusable content elements are the building blocks of engaging layouts and dynamic pages. Whether you’re customizing your homepage, setting up seasonal offers, or building with Magento Page Builder, Magento CMS blocks are key to delivering rich, branded experiences.

Yet, despite their critical role, Magento 2 doesn’t offer built-in tools for importing or exporting CMS elements like static blocks, pages, or widgets. That’s where the Improved Import & Export extension steps in, enabling seamless data transfers across stores and environments.

In this comprehensive guide, we explore what Magento 2 CMS blocks are, the difference between static and dynamic blocks, how to create and insert blocks, and how to import and export Magento 2 static blocks quickly and accurately. You’ll learn how to structure your import table, configure import jobs, and avoid common pitfalls. We’ll also walk through every CMS block attribute, share ready-to-use sample files, and explain how to move CMS content between Magento 2 installations with confidence. Whether you’re a developer, store admin, or agency partner, this tutorial will help you master Magento CMS block management like a pro.

Magento 2 Mass Product Update: How to Bulk Upload, Update & Import Product Price, Quantity & Other Data

June 2, 2025 - E-Commerce, Import / Export Cookbook, Magento 2, Our extensions

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Keeping your product catalog accurate and competitive often requires frequent changes, and a Magento 2 mass product update is the fastest way to get it done. Whether you’re adjusting prices for a sale, updating inventory after a stock delivery, or syncing with supplier data, manual edits just don’t scale. That’s why smart store owners turn to automated solutions to perform bulk product updates in Magento efficiently and reliably.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to update Magento 2 product prices and quantities in mass using the powerful Improved Import & Export extension. You’ll learn the difference between Magento bulk product upload and Magento bulk product update, how to avoid common CSV import pitfalls, and how to schedule recurring inventory updates. From increasing accuracy to saving hours of manual work, we’ll show you how to transform your Magento product upload process into a streamlined, automated workflow.

Let’s dive into how to perform a Magento 2 mass stock and price update — quickly, easily, and at scale.

What Is Pipedrive CRM? 2025 Guide to Features, Pricing & Alternatives

March 12, 2025 - E-Commerce

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Today’s digital-first world requires turning to SaaS solutions, streamlining operations, boosting productivity, and enhancing customer relationships. Instead of dealing with complex software installations and hardware maintenance, businesses can now access powerful tools online — managed entirely by the provider. This ensures better security, uptime, and performance without the hassle of manual upkeep.

One such solution leading the way in sales automation and customer relationship management is Pipedrive CRM. But what is Pipedrive CRM and what is it used for? Designed specifically for sales teams, Pipedrive simplifies lead tracking, pipeline management, and deal forecasting, making it an essential tool for businesses looking to optimize their sales process.

In this guide, we’ll explore how to use Pipedrive: its key features, pricing plans, integrations, and Pipedrive alternatives. By the end, you’ll know how much Pipedrive costs, its pros and cons, and whether it’s still a top CRM choice in 2025. Boost sales productivity — see how Pipedrive combines CRM with the best AI tools to drive growth.

Shopify vs Magento – The Ultimate Guide

July 15, 2022 - E-Commerce, Magento 2, Shopify

More and more businesses are entering the eCommerce market. Today, having a digital store is an essential and highly valuable parameter. It’s a challenging and resource-intensive idea to build a business from scratch. In essence, companies use specialized platforms that can assist in the launch and growth of their shop. There are well-known leaders which are at the same time competitors. Now, we’ll examine Shopify and Magento 2, two of the top eCommerce platforms. Formerly, both systems introduce the most popular mid-market options, but they provide brands and retailers with very different feature sets and propositions as a result. Currently, Magento focuses more on large-scale businesses, while Shopify targets smaller shops. Despite this, we will analyze the key features and characteristics of both platforms in this article and compare their specifics in depth.

Import/Export cookbook: How to import product prices for Magento 2 Shared Catalogs

January 19, 2022 - E-Commerce, Import / Export Cookbook, Magento 2, Our extensions, Uncategorized

Shared Catalogs allow Magento 2 Commerce owners to create product categories for particular companies (Magento 2 B2B feature) with the individual prices, which are not available for general customers. In this article we will use Improved Import & Export extension to import and export prices for the Shared Catalogs.

Shared Catalogs feature the same exact products which are available in your product catalog, however the prices for such products may be adjusted for B2B company customer accounts. Now, how can you import these product prices inside your Magento 2? In this cookbook article I will explain that it is nothing new, and you already know how to do it, and have probably done it many times.

Magento 2 import and export COOKBOOK index post. Use cases and instructions

January 19, 2022 - E-Commerce, Import / Export Cookbook, Magento 2, Our extensions

This is an index blog post for Magento 2 import and export use cases. In this post you will find links with the description to the posts which describe how to use Improved Import & Export extension for Magento 2.

Each use case article comes with the step by step instructions and screenshots illustrating the extension setup process. Each article covers a particular use case/question, for example: how to map product attributes, how to update stock and price of the Magento 2 product.

Read and bookmark articles
Try out the instructions at our Magento 2 demo store
Check out Master Table which contains samples of every Magento 2 entity export and import file.

Import/Export cookbook: How to import products to Magento 2 with VAT price included and deduct the VAT automatically to display regular price

October 25, 2021 - E-Commerce, Import / Export Cookbook, Magento 2, Our extensions, Uncategorized

When you import products to your Magento 2 store, often the ‘Price’ column from the file already includes VAT. However, if you want to sell products for their real price, how do you import such products?

Do you edit the imported table manually before the import? Ask your supplier to send you prices without VAT?

However, you sometimes cannot get prices without VAT. Your supplier sends you the file from their warehouse, and cannot control how the prices are printed. Or the ERP system sends a json file, which is hard to edit.

You can do it, specify VAT and have it deducted automatically with the Improved Import & Export extension for Magento 2. Below, I will tell you how to do it, in a few steps.

Import/Export cookbook: How to automate Magento 2 product catalog update from Google Sheets, FTP/SFTP, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox

September 13, 2021 - E-Commerce, Import / Export Cookbook, Magento 2, Our extensions

Working with suppliers requires you to regularly update your Magento 2 product catalog with new prices, stock updates, and sometimes other relevant attributes. Store managers can spend a lot of time manually going product by product, spending their time and going attribute by attribute.

With Improved Import & Export extension for Magento 2 you can automate product catalog update tasks with cron scheduler and recurring import jobs, that automatically fetch the file with supplier updates from the source, and upload it to your store.

In the article below, I will give you step by step instructions on how to do it.

Import/Export cookbook: How to update Magento 2 product prices during import quickly, without editing the CSV table

September 13, 2021 - Cryptocurrency, E-Commerce, Import / Export Cookbook, Magento 2

If you are a dropshipper or want to follow the inflation and increase product prices for your whole Magento 2 catalog or a part of it, you can do it quickly with the Improved Import & Export extension.

Export product catalog and import it back with the Price Rules – a quick filter that allows increasing and decreasing prices by a percent or a flat value.